Sunday, June 22, 2008

SPAIN vs ITALY.... ANOTHER CLASSIC

Sunday afternoon brought forth another classic matchup for hardcore soccer fans as SPAIN faced off against ITALY to determine the fourth and final Semi-Finalist for EURO 2008. Up to this point, aside from Germany, all of the quarterfinal favorites fell by the wayside. So there was a lot of pressure on the Spaniards to win their match as they were the favorites against the old, but pesky Italy team. History wasn't on Spain's side either, as the past revealed that the last four times that the Spaniards played a meaningful match (i.e. World Cup or European Cup) on June 22th, they lost each time.

As with practically every other match that took place during this tournament, there was a pretty nice crowd at the bar to check it out. Speaking of which, what's up with the preponderance of hot chicks that turn out for soccer matches??? First Turkey, now the Spaniards and Italians (though I'm not as surprised by that) come in with their groupies and the female versions are usually pretty hot. Makes it hard to watch the matches.

In any case, we were treated to yet another fascinating match as Spain and Italy went back and forth and ended up going to penalty kicks before Spain was able to pull out a hard-fought victory, 4-2 (p.k's).

We had various members of the SUNDAY BREW CREW in attendance for the match, including T-BILL, AFRIKA BAMBATTA, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, TURBO, SILENT BOB, DIRTY SANCHEZ, HORNY GOATWEED, and DOUBLE-S among would-be soccer enthusiasts. Even BOBBY DEWARS tried to get into the match, but his attention span held up for only about fifteen minutes.

We also met up with a friend of one of our former BREW CREW members, REDSKINS CHICK, who entertained us with some funny stories of her own. She's also the author of the pretty funny blog, "LET'S BLOG IT OUT".



All told, it was a pretty relaxing, yet funny afternoon. One more week of EURO '08 madness before the final takes place a week from today. It's been a good run. Now bring back the NFL.


UPCOMING EVENTS:

Monday: "Mug Night Madness" ($2.00 Domestic Draft Mugs, $1.00 Bud/Bud Light Mugs)

Tuesday: "Dollar Draft Madness" ($1.00 Bud/Bud Light mugs)

Wednesday: "Guitar Hero Party" ($3.00 Mixed Well Drinks for ladies, $4.00 Coors Light and $1.00 off all IMPORTED beers).


Thursday: "Bucket o' Lights" (Miller Lite, Coors Light or Michelob Light buckets, 5/$15.00).


Friday: "Subway Series Happy Hour" ($4.00, all draft beer and mixed well drinks, 5-10pm)


And finally, HAPPY TRAILS......

To one of America's greatest comics, GEORGE CARLIN, who passed away over the weekend of heart failure, at the age of 71. To read more about him and his comedic legacy, click HERE. This man was simply one of the best and his acerbic wit and view on life will be missed.









Catch ya later!


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